A Californian who was the LA Times All-Area player of the year and the Pasadena Now News player of the year in 2017-18, Perrantes actually began his career at Rhode Island, didn't play the 2020 season and completed 139 of 233 passes for 1,620 yards, 17 touchdowns and seven interceptions with the Dukes in 2021. Quarterback situation: Former Ohio quarterback Joe Mischler was the starter in 2020 but a knee injury ended his season in the 2021 opener. He joined the Dukes in the spring of 2022 after working there with Schmitt from 2010-13. 21 and was in the top 10 in total, rushing and scoring defense. He was previously the defensive coordinator at Division II California University of Pennsylvania, where he molded the Vulcans into one of the top defenses at that level just about every year. 26 in red zone offense by securing scores on 86.8 percent of their possessions.ĭefensive coordinator Mike Craig is in his second season. There were 123 FCS teams in 2022, and the Dukes were in the top half of just one of the five major offensive categories. He was the conference player of the year in 2005. Francis from 2003-06, he set the NEC record with 8,544 passing yards. Offensive coordinator Anthony Doria is in his 13th season with the program and was promoted to offensive coordinator in 2016. T he Dukes have 47 NEC wins the past 10 seasons after posting a 4-11 mark in their first two years while integrating a scholarship model. A former head coach in Pennsylvania high schools, assistant at Duquesne and head coach at his alma mater, Westminster, as the program transitioned from Division III to Division II, he's Duquesne's leader in wins and has won five Northeast Conference championships and reached the FCS playoffs in 20, when he was a finalist for the FCS coach of the year award. The four other times he had a losing record at Duquesne, Schmitt recovered with winning records the following season three times. The Dukes had seven straight winning records before falling off in 2022. He averaged 11.08 rushing attempts in his 12 starts, down from his career average of 12.55 rushes per contest.2022 record: 4-7 overall, 3-4 Northeast ConferenceĬomposite strength of schedule rating: N/Aīefore WVU: The Dukes visit WVU after opening the season at home against Edinboro.Ĭoaching situation: Head coach Jerry Schmitt enters his 19th season. Jackson’s rushing, meanwhile, saw a slight drop off in 2021. He threw a touchdown on 4.2 percent of his attempts in four 2020 contests. Also - and this shouldn’t be forgotten when we’re prepping for the 2022 season - Hurts was spectacularly unlucky with a 3.7 percent passing touchdown rate, 24th among qualifying QBs. His upside was destroyed, and his chance to be fantasy’s top-scoring player was no more he couldn’t possibly compensate for the loss of rushing production in an offense that passed it as seldom as possible. Hurts logged a mere nine total rushes in his final two regular season games. From Week 12-18, Hurts notched a far more meager 6.25 runs and 41.5 yards per contest. He was fantasy’s top-scoring quarterback headed into Week 12, about ten points clear of Tom Brady, averaging 10.37 rushes and 56.18 rushing yards per game in the extremely run-heavy Philadelphia offense. The Hurts ankle injury - which came in Week 12 against the Giants - ruined what could have been a massive end-of-season rushing line for the Eagles quarterback. Rush attempts and rushing yardage also dipped in 2021. It wasn't just touchdowns that fell off for the NFL's dual-threats. That’s 240 fantasy points on touchdowns alone. Those setbacks plus the league’s emphasis on calling holding penalties at any and every opportunity plus some natural touchdown regression led to 40 fewer quarterback rushing scores from 2020 to 2021. Josh Allen, with a career-high 122 rushes for 763 yards and six touchdowns, was the lone bright spot for QB rushing truthers in 2021. Almost nothing went according to plan following the meteoric rise of the rushing QB in 2020: Lamar Jackson missed four games Jalen Hurts’ ankle issue effectively stripped him of his rushing upside in the season’s final six weeks Taysom Hill couldn’t beat out Jameis Winston for the Saints’ starting gig Kyler Murray missed four games and was hampered by an ankle issue in other contests Deshaun Watson (22 sexual harassment lawsuits) was inactive all season Justin Fields and Trey Lance were relegated to clipboard duty for much of the season and/or criminally mismanaged by their coaches Zach Wilson didn’t run nearly as much as many (me) believed he would and Russell Wilson, in part due to injury, logged the fewest rushing attempts of his ten years in Seattle.
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